Using Information Technology to Incorporate Natural Hazards and Mitigation Strategies in the Civil Engineering Curriculum

Perdomo, José L.; Pando, Miguel A.

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“…The Geotechnical Engineering III course provides a unique opportunity to tailor geotechnical engineering to specific issues in the geographic area. For example, in Puerto Rico, the undergraduate geotechnical curriculum includes a natural hazards course (Perdomo and Pando 2014). This area is highly susceptible to natural hazards such as hurricanes, extreme weather events, earthquakes, tsunamis and floods (Perdomo and Pando 2014).…”

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“…For example, in Puerto Rico, the undergraduate geotechnical curriculum includes a natural hazards course (Perdomo and Pando 2014). This area is highly susceptible to natural hazards such as hurricanes, extreme weather events, earthquakes, tsunamis and floods (Perdomo and Pando 2014). In programs with a heavier emphasis on environmental engineering, this course could be focused on environmental soil remediation and landfill design.…”

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“…al. 2015;Perdomo and Pando 2014). Issues are anticipated in a university with small enrollments or few faculty members, and therefore, few students interested in a geotechnical concentration.…”

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Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering Education of the 21st Century

Wirth

Jiang

Silva

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J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract.

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interests" (Marcuson et al. 1991). Unfortunately, the current geotechnical education curriculum 16 does not provide the foundation necessary to ensure the engineer's success in the 21 st century. A typical academic year in universities is divided into several (e.g., two, three, four or more) 103 teaching semesters, terms, or quarters. The introductory geotechnical course varies from university 104 to university, though it often includes a laboratory section to gain practical experience in soil 105 testing and to reinforce concepts taught in the lecture portion of the course. 230The proposed curriculum cannot be easily adapted at every university. Universities which have 261Addressing these changes will take significant effort, but they are possible. Defining clear presented during the class period. They were simple problems that were easy to grade, yet they 300 provided some "real-time" measure of student comprehension which allowed the instructor to 301 adjust lecture concepts accordingly. 302Although the effectiveness of interactive modules and activities were difficult to measure 303 numerically, the students seemed to respond positively to the new activities at University of 304Vermont, citing that they helped the students better understand the engineering concepts 305 (Dewoolkar et. al. 2009). Students at other universities had similar positive feedback when case 306 studies were introduced to the curriculum (Abbo et. al. 2012; Newson and Delatte 2011

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“…자연재해와 관련된 국·내외 선행연구들은 대부분 토목 및 환경공 학적 관점에서 이루어지고 있다 (Ford et al, 2002;Thomalla et al, 2006;Peῆa-Mora et al, 2012;Vallero and Letcher, 2012;Perdomo and Pando, 2014) Kazmierczak and Cavan, 2011;Kim et al, 2011), OLS회귀모형 을 활용한 연구 (Shim and Kim, 2012;Im, 2013), 음이항회귀모형 을 활용한 연구 (Kellenberg and Mobarak, 2008), 패널모형을 활용한 연구 (Choi, 2004) …”

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Estimation of the Natural Damage Disaster Considering the Spatial Autocorrelation and Urban Characteristics

Seo¹,

Lee²,

Choi³

2016

Journal of The Korean Society of Civil Engineers

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This study aims to analyze the effects of urban characteristics on the amount of damage caused by natural disasters. It is focused on the areas of a municipal level in Korea. Also, it takes into account the spatial autocorrelation of the damage caused by natural disasters. Moran's I statistics was estimated to examine the spatial autocorrelation in the damage from the study area. Subsequent to evaluating the suitability for spatial regression models and the OLS regression model, the spatial lag model was employed as an empirical analysis for the study. It showed that the increase in residential area leads to the decrease in the amount of natural disaster damage. On the other hand, the increase in green area and river basin is associated with the increase in the damage. As a result of empirical analysis, appropriate policy establishment and implementation about the damage-adding factors is needed in order to reduce the amount of damage in the future.

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“…Table I summarizes the above mentioned natural disasters and other related dependencies. The magnitudes of physical damages and loss of lives are based on 21st century statistics and are based on the occurrence of a single disaster (unless otherwise noted) [1][2][3] By looking at the progressive statistics of the natural disasters, one can notice recent sharp decrease in damages and fatalities due to the fact that governments have been implementing measures to reduce such impacts. Due to the massive impacts for physical damages and fatalities and interrelated connections, tsunamis and earthquakes will be further considered in this article and the novel wireless disaster management system will also be optimized for these two natural disasters.…”

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A mobile health network disaster management system

Adibi

2015

2015 Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks

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A common occurrence in almost all full-scale natural disasters is the rapid destruction of the telecommunication infrastructure as the inevitable unfolds, which tends to halt the necessary communications between the humanitarian operators and the people in need. In such scenarios, the deployment of wireless networks would provide fast and temporary remedies, however these networks normally do not provide services to the end-users and ordinary people, instead they provide connectivity between groups of end-users administered by a local service provider. From a range of services provided to the end-users by the humanitarian operators, healthcare is by far the top priority. This is considered through the utilization of smartphones in a Mobile Health (mHealth) perspective, which is an emerging concept for monitoring and tracking end-user health conditions. This article considers an mHealth system used in a tsunami-stricken disaster scenario, including a discussion on the most recent advances of Device to Device (D2D) and LTE-Direct technologies.The future of wireless and cellular disaster recovery systems is expected to rely heavily on direct Device-to-Device (D to D) communication, eliminating the need of the functioning telecommunication infrastructure. Reference [11] has identified the following 7 key technology goals for future public disaster recovery systems: LTE-based communication systems, resource sharing mechanisms, hierarchical dispatch-chain, unified voice/data/video communication channels, integrated security, privacy, and reliability, scalability and system reconfiguration, and real-time low-latency communication responses. These goals will be coupled with Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)

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Using Information Technology to Incorporate Natural Hazards and Mitigation Strategies in the Civil Engineering Curriculum

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Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering Education of the 21st Century

Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering Education of the 21st Century

Estimation of the Natural Damage Disaster Considering the Spatial Autocorrelation and Urban Characteristics

A mobile health network disaster management system

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